USPTO Patents Application 10037067

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

A multicast group list (i.e., destination node address list) for a
network device is circularly linked such that the list can be entered at any
point and traversed back to the entry point. The list traversal is then
5 terminated as the entire list has been processed. The data packet received
at the network device for transmission to the multicast group can indicate
the entry point, although there are other techniques for determining the
entry point. The destination node address for the entry point is skipped,
that is the mxilticast data packet is not transmitted to the entry point
10 destination address.

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